There are 16 colored blank banners, and numerous patterns each available in each of the 16 colors. A banner can feature up to 6 different patterns. The top layer of a banner (or the last pattern added) can be washed off by using it on a cauldron containing water.

Banners, much like signs, can be placed both on the ground facing in any direction, or on a wall.
Banners have no collision mask as they are completely non-solid, so items and mobs can move through them.

Other blocks (including other banners) can be placed on any edge of a banner's hitbox, which, despite appearing as two blocks tall, only fills the bottom block on one placed on the ground.
This makes it possible to overlap another solid block on the top half of a banner.

When a banner is placed on a vertical block, its position is set by the top block, and it is possible to place it so it appears half buried.

Banners can also be placed in item frames, where they simply appear as their item model.

Lava can create fire in air blocks next to banners as if the banners were flammable, but the banners will not burn up (and can't be burned by other methods, either). Banners also cannot be moved by pistons.

If a banner is renamed on an anvil, it will retain its name when a pattern is added, but not when a pattern is removed.

A banner can be given a custom name which remains as the banner is placed and retrieved. The player can use an anvil to rename the banner item, or may change the CustomName tag using the /data command on the banner block.

Right-clicking on a banner with a map selected will place a marker of the banner's position on that map ‌[Java Edition only], and right-clicking again will remove it. The marker will have the same color as the banner's base, and will not have any decorations. The marker will be removed if the banner is destroyed unless the map is locked using the cartography table. If the banner is renamed, the name will show above the marker.‌[Java Edition only]

A banner may have up to six patterns, which are overlaid with the last-crafted on top. A banner can have up to 16 patterns with the use of commands.

Any color banner can be used, the color will just be overlayed with the pattern. In Java Edition a loom is used to make patterns. However, in Bedrock Edition, the patterns can be made in loom or in crafting table.

Banners will now require a dye when applying a pattern that uses a non-dye item, such as a creeper head or enchanted golden apple. Previously, the lack of a dye would have applied the black variant of the pattern.

When Banners are placed in the Overworld, they gently sway, as if affected by the wind.

With 16 blank banners, 38 patterns of 16 colors each (608 uniquely-colored patterns), and 0 to 6 patterns per banner, the number of uniquely crafted banners is 16 × (6080 + 6081 + 6082 + 6083 + 6084 + 6085 + 6086) ≈ 809 quadrillion (809,573,616,779,945,488). The number of visually distinct banners is smaller, because one or more patterns may completely cover other patterns, or the entire banner, or be duplicated due to the symmetric set of patterns (e.g. field or (yellow) + per pale azure (blue) = field azure + per pale or inverted).

If a banner has over 6 patterns, only the six bottommost patterns are displayed when hovered over in the inventory.

The Mojang Logo is called "Thing" ingame, which could be considered an alternate translation for mojäng. If you use Google Translate, it translates to "thingys" or "contraption".

In the Swedish translation of the game, this pattern is, in fact, called mojäng.

Banner textures are located in \assets\minecraft\textures\entity\banner.

There are 40 monochrome textures, each containing all 6 sides of the banner.

The texture of the back side is the mirrored texture of the front side.

Compared to the texture files, textures' colors are inverted in-game due to them acting as masks for the re-colored base texture, base.png. That means white is visible, while black is transparent.

There are two unused item textures for the banner. Instead, the banner displays itself as if it were a block.

In the Legacy Console Edition, the icon for the banner is turned the other way, but the patterns are not mirrored.

In Bedrock Edition, banners are considered as items. Dropping a banner on the ground will reveal that the item entity does not rotate like the item entity of a block. This is because the banner previously had an item sprite, and items never rotate when idle.

The Ominous Banner's‌[Java Edition only] design uses 8 patterns. Because of this, it cannot be crafted.

Because the Illager Banner is a separate type of banner‌[Bedrock Edition only], you cannot add patterns to it or even put it in the banner slot of a Loom.

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